#kurdish guys

[singingbird-1]

Yilmaz Sinan

#guys with beards #hairyman #hairy #male #turkish man #kurdish #yilmaz sinan

[turkishsmoker]

#handsome #smoking #kurdish #smoker #turkish #smoking hot #men smoking #sweet guy #smoking boys #hot smoke #gay smoker #smoker gay #smoking guys #turkish smoking macho #turkish smoking master #smokenturkish #turkish master #turkish macho #hot turkish boys #kurdish smoking #kurdish guys #kurdish and turkish smoking man

[leroibobo]

ezekiel's tomb in al kifl, iraq is believed by jews and muslims to house the body of the biblical prophet ezekiel, with shi'ites specifically believing the site has its roots on a shrine built by the prophet abraham. the tomb itself was built in the 7th century. today, it's a part of the al-nukhailah mosque complex, built by ilkhanate ruler abu sa'id bahadur khan in the 14th century.

until the mid-20th century, thousands of iraqi jews used to make pilgrimage to the tomb on passover. the rule of saddam hussein saw many of the jewish inscriptions covered in white paint or removed, but they've since been restored.

#iraq #architecture #interior #worship #jewish #mizrahi #muslim #shared space #my posts #there was recently a scammer in iraq who ''found'' a fake jewish text of some sort (which was found to be fake later) #and the iraqi government called the very obvious hebrew letters ''aramaic inscriptions'' #aramaic can be written in hebrew letters (especially judeo-aramaic) but thats very much not what they were implying lmao #especially considering the jewish community in that area wasn't one of the ones using judeo-aramaic #i mean the alternative to this was the iraqi kurdish govt faking having a jewish guy in a fake ''department of jewish affairs''

[layzeal]

everyday for the past two months it's been waking up in the morning to the most horrifying war crimes being committed by a fascist colonial power run by a death cult, followed by said power fabricating the most offensive and easily debunked lies to excuse said war crimes, then the entire fucking world media believing them and waving around their pathetic little crocodile tears as i pass by the news that the soldiers of that world power shot an old woman in the entrance of a hospital and used her as bait to shoot any medic who tried helping her, followed by a video of parents looking through the charred remains of children's limbs and scalps trying to recognize their own. and then i go to brazilian TV and find the news that a brazilian palestinian has finally been able to leave Gaza and all the reporters wanna focus on is how they're probably a terrorist because of these posts from 2015 where they condemn israel's actions. and then i look at the presidents of the only few nations who have the power to stop this genocide with a single phone call and how they entirely refuse to do shit about it, just to be told on tumblr dot com that praying for the dismantlement of the state of israel is evil and inconsiderate because don't you know they suffered really really badly in the past (but also please don't google the rates of poverty of holocaust survivors and how they're treated by the government of the country that was supposed to be a safe haven. well at least george from pennsylvania can move and have a beautiful view of the burned olive tress from the multigenerational house he stole in the west bank, and isn't THAT what really matters)

#anyways today's lie was the israeli government posting a picture of a kurdish woman who had been raped and killed in may 2023 #claiming it is a israeli woman from oct 7 #meanwhile they ravage Al Shifa hospital because there are terrorist bases there guys trust us!!!!! #they're right behind these premature babies suffocating because the incubators have no more energy!!!!! #just one more group of terrorist guys and we'll be fine and have peace forever!!!!!! #god what a bunch of ghouls #and western powers are gladly funding this shit #but nooooo don't call for a free palestine don't u know it's actually a call for genocide 🥺 unlike whatever we are doing in gaza #godddd #fuck the US fuck France fuck Germany fuck Russia and FUCK ISRAEL 🖕🖕🖕 #''right to defend itself'' babygirl you don't even have a right to exist. your PEOPLE have a right to exist and feel safe like all others #but no nation state has rights and especially none that prioritize its own existence over indigenous people's lives

[leefi]

my grandma: Kurdistan vs Kurdistan…

#this is a joke abut how we are iraqi kurds and there’s this one guy on twitter whose entire account is dedicated to #proving japan is the kurdish homeland. we discuss him like a celebrity #woof

[suncaptor]

keep thinking of remzi (guy no one here would know) what a guy.

#hes so good. hes the turkish (kurdish) guy i stayed in his room over night i smoked weed with him in the woods on an island alone #we played music and took videos and h #he taught me all the different Turkish pronunciations and didnt give a fuck i was gay and never made a single move 🤗🤗 #anyways maybe some people can be normal about me when im high and vulnerable #ezgi also didnt make a move that first night i was very high i would have let it happen #but we didnt speak the same language really and i suppose she didnt want to risk it. even when we were sleeping in the same bed days #later when she was touching me she never pushed me :) #i smoked a lot of weed in turkey lol #tw weed

[navramanan]

Aquiring knowledge -> getting filled with frustration and anger and dread -> wanting to stay informed regardless -> aquiring knowledge -> getting filled with frustration etc etc

#i am fucking talking to the void and vallahi i WIIIIISSSHHHH i had a proper oulet to let out my frustration #but FFFFFFUUUUUCCCCKKKKK #nothing scarred me and showed me how fucking alone we were in our struggle and grief than the muslim world's reaction to rojava's invasion #in 2019. you know ok i know kurdistan gets little media coverage usually bc it's not relevant to american interest #but the invasion 2019 was HEAVILY covered by western media as it was the direct result of trump withdrawing the troops #and having a phone call with kerrrrrrrdogan saying hey you can invade now #so there was ZERO reason or possibility the muslim world wouldnt see what was happening #it was EVERYWHERE it got great western media coverage #but when i saw big muslim news accounts staying either silent OR siding with turkey i felt so fucking enraged and disturbed #and rejected. in turn there also werent individual muslims showing support as big crowds #like obv there were some here and there but not as a collective. they either sided with turkey or simply didnt care #you have to clock that. i cant say how many died but hundreds of thousands were displaced #turkey USED FUCKING WHITE PHOSPHORUS. WHICH IS A WAR CRIME. IT'S A CHEMICAL WEAPON #they literally said theyd create a strip of land to move syrian refugees there. arab refugees on kurdish land to change the demographic #and every fucking one went yeah that's fine nothing wrong with it. vallahi those people's plights are on you #and allah will ask. dont think he wont. while we were screaming for the muslim world to see us #they in turn pointed there fingers at us. said turkey was fighting terror. said they wouldnt hurt civilians #but what ever do you guys know what it's like to scream and scream but have no one bet an eye? #that's how i feel. that's how we kurds feel #man fuck off whatever i want to strangle someone #nesi rants

[menpop]

Ali

Kurdish Turkish man

#handsome #turkish #kurdish #kurdish bulge #turkish man #turkish bulge #handsome daddy #guys in suits #loafers #shinnyshoes

[avo-kat]

things i didnt think id ever say to my friends: "oh at 15.00 i have an appointment with a possible child torturer"

work is great

#i work in recruiting. #we got a resume from a guy. who stated. that he worked at a children and youth prison. #i had to doubletake and google that #but yes its real #and i found many many many many articles saying how childre in that prison are being tortured and worse. #and this guy. #he openly and willingly put this in his resume. working as a guard. at a kids prison. #which i wasnt aware was even a thing. #its maltepe prison in turkey fyi #and from what ive researched its um. affecting kurdish kids for uh. taking part in demonstrations. you know? #they are even literal babies in prison cuz their mothers have been convicted for being “”terrorists“” #also dude worked there for SEVEN fucking years #even if he himself did nothing bad whatsoever #he still worked at a CHILDRENS PRISON FOR SEVEN YEARS #he applied for a factory job but. man. man. maaaaaaaan. #i already met him in person too btw #he seemed perfectly nice and normal which. u know. not surprising whatsoever. doesnt mean anything at all. #sigh

[salthat]

How it feels having autism and being safi 6

#kurdish #guys I think I’m going to have to respectfully leave existing #either I’m disappearing and not making my location known or my (dead) body count will be steadily rising #find the p(t) of Deez nuts bitch #I think I’m going to explode something with my kind #I was like. aiming for 85-89 this year but I think I have to settle for 62 💀

[artbyblastweave]

I've never made any connections between Worm and the Captain America mythos before. Spill some ink?

Okay, so from a purely aesthetic perspective, the gimme is Miss Militia. She's the most obvious "Captain Patriotic" in the roster, she has the power of GUN, she's the only one who actively buys into the mythology of America specifically. She's a Kurdish woman occupying an aesthetic niche generally held by a rugged squinty white guy. She's an output of the melting pot narrative. She's sort of a rendering of what a grounded superhero who somehow became very aesthetically into America might look like. Not in the craven marketing-driven way of Homelander or Comedian, not in the jingoistic maniac way of USAgent or Peacemaker. She buys it in the broadly left-liberal (USamerican connotation of that term) safe, friendly, reclamative way. Why, what a great rehabilitation of the archetype!

She's also deeply, deeply afraid of rocking the boat. She's got a deepseated childhood trauma related to the bad things that happen when she puts herself in a leadership role. She goes along to get along. When she's proactive, it's usually to point a gun at Tattletale to stop her from upsetting the status quo. She sits through a lot of situations where Steve Rogers, as commonly modeled, would probably plant himself like a tree by the river of truth and go, "Hey, this is fucked up." She more or less capitulates to Undersider domination of the city, in a way that predisposes us to think of her as a voice of reason after all these total nuts that Skitter's been up against- but would Taylor "to relinquish control is a form of ego death" Hebert really be willing to leave someone in charge of the local Protectorate branch who she thought couldn't be corralled? She looks like a beacon, but doesn't- indeed, probably can't- ever truly behave like one. I mean, you can debate the on-the-spot morality of any given one of her judgement calls, that's actually one of the less exhausting Worm Morality Debates to have- but in aggregate, a person in American flag garb who actually meaningfully criticizes the paramilitary organization they're part of is not gonna survive long in that role!

So again, she's the gimme from an aesthetic standpoint. But what I don't really see a lot of discussion of is how Cauldron plays into the riff.

Captain America is institutional, but in a comically morally uncomplicated way. The serum was originally mana from heaven, granted to a living saint, conveniently divorced from any nitty-gritty sausage-making process and even-more conveniently divorced from the horrible consequences of giving the, uh, the U.S government a replicable super soldier process. And in fairness to Captain America, this is 100 percent something the overall mythos eventually patched to my satisfaction; the sausage-making process eventually revealed as prototypical government fuckery driven by human experimentation on black servicemen, the overall Marvel Setting littered with failed attempts by the U.S. Government to recreate that golden goose so they can have their fun new jackboots. (In Ultimate Marvel, this is how almost all contemporary superhumans were created, and this is a state of affairs with a body count in the millions or billions.)

Cauldron draws you in with the same noble rhetoric about greater goods, the same one-off proprietary irreplicable formula- but you don't get the luxury afterwards of representing nothing but the dream. You aren't partnering up with a plucky crank scientist with a heart of gold. You're selling your soul to an organization with an agenda. The narrative makes no bones about the fact that everything you do is fundamentally tainted by the fact you opted into an end product created through torture, kidnapping and human experimentation. You don't get to pull a Kamen Rider by going rogue or opting out or making good use of the fruit of the poisoned tree; you are owned, and everything you do has this Damocles sword hanging over your head- when are the people who bankrolled this going to come to collect?

So that's the question of "who would willingly dress like that" covered, and the question of who creates a serum like that. What about the question of who takes a serum like that? I'd argue that Eidolon is the examination of that. Pre-Cauldron David reads to me like pre-serum Steve Rogers viewed through a significantly bleaker lens. They're both sickly kids desperate to serve, rocketed to the pinnacle of human capability by an experimental procedure. But for Steve Rogers, the crisis was that he had a specific vision of the world and was frustrated by his inability to carry it out. Before the serum he picked fights over what was right and wrong and got his ass handed to him; afterwards he picked those same fights and just started winning instead. The serum neatly solved a problem he had, and to the extent that his mindset is influenced by his pre-serum experiences, it's generally constructive; a desire to protect the weak, help the helpless, an appreciation for people who stand up for what's right even when they're clearly gonna get pancaked for their trouble. So ultimately there's no dark side, downside, or underlying neurosis ascribed to his initial impulse to take that serum.

But with David, it's not a tragic case of the spirit being willing but the flesh being weak. He isn't a preternaturally-noble soul, out to represent the best elements of the American ideal- he kind of represents the inverse, a guy who's been failed at every level while utterly convinced that he's the problem. He's actively suicidal because he's a wheelchair-bound epileptic in an economically-depressed socially-backwards rural town in the 1980s, and he's spent his 18 years of life internalizing the idea that he's worse than useless unless he can somehow find a way provide value to something larger than himself. Doctor Mother finds him in the aftermath of a suicide attempt spurred by his rejection from the army- and he didn't even want to join the army specifically, necessarily, he just needed his situation to be literally anything else, and he took what he thought he could get. And then he finds himself in a position to become a superhero, so he does that, molds himself into that, subordinates himself to that, builds his entire sense of self and values around the value he can provide in that role. No grand design or sacred principles carried over through the metamorphosis. Just relief at finally, finally having something that looks like an answer to the question of what he's supposed to do.

And you know, you know that if Steve Rogers was facing down the barrel of being depowered, he'd smile and nod, he'd Cincinnatus that shit. It's happened before. But for David, the emotional trauma and self-worth issues that caused him to roll the dice on a Steve-Rogers treatment never really went away. When would it? He's been Providing Value as a ten-ton Hammer Against Evil for thirty years. No family, no social life. Certainly, no incentive on his handler's part to lance his Atlas complex. So he barrels towards atrocity in the name of remaining useful. Admittedly, this is where the comparison breaks down in a significant way; Captain America is much more of a symbol than he is an irreplicable powerhouse, so it's not catastrophic if he's taken off the board. Eidolon is so unbelievably powerful that his myopia and self-centeredness actually do align with a real problem everyone else is gonna have if he loses his powers. But in terms of the starting points- I think that Steve Rogers embodies the myth about why you'd want to join the army that badly. Eidolon is, I think, much more closely modelling why you'd actually want to join the army that badly.

#apologies for the delay in responding #worm #wildbow #parahumans #worm meta #eidolon #thoughts #meta #miss militia

[singingbird-1]

Yilmaz Sinan

#guys with beards #hairyman #hairy #male #yilmaz sinan #turkish #turkish man #kurdish

[turkishsmoker]

#handsome #smoking #smoker #kurdish #men smoking #smoking boys #smoking guys #hot smoke #gay smoker #smoker gay #turkish macho #turkish smoking master #turkish smoking macho #kurdish smoking #turkish master #turkish #cigarette #smoking hot #Hot Male #sweet guy #hot turkish boys #smokenturkish

[caesarsaladinn]

thinking for some reason about the coolest person I've ever met, a carpet dealer from New Zealand who moved to Cappadocia to start her business. she was totally ordinary to look at but had this manner that immediately seemed to earn everyone's respect (certainly mine). she knew more about carpets, kilims, and their relatives than I will probably know about anything in my life, and loved to teach people about them in a way that was really infectious. essentially a scholar at the top of her field.

when I asked whether Iranian sanctions had affected her business she went "oh, god no, these are all smuggled. the smugglers used to carry them in oil trucks, and we would bid on them from fifty yards away because the smell was so bad. that's an old dealer's trick, too--brush some gasoline on the carpet to really make it shine. at this point I probably know every shady Kurdish guy from here to Afghanistan."

fucking awesome.

#posts with a target audience of me #i would like to be like her--to have incredible prowess and influence in one's own little corner of the world.

[autolenaphilia]

The Western hypocrisy over Armenia makes me so angry. Nagorno-Karabakh is going to get ethnically cleansed by Azerbaijan, and the west will do nothing. Like the Russian invasion of Ukraine is a crime, but you can't be against buying oil and gas from Russia and be okay with buying it from Azerbaijan without being a massive hypocrite. The Western world is only against human rights violations when it serves their interests. Russia is opposed to those interests, so its evil, but Turkey and Azerbaijan are allies of the west, so they are good, despite doing everything bad that Russia also does. A plague on both their houses.

And don't go "Armenia is allied with Russia, so they deserve being genocided" as I've seen Turkey/Azerbaijan apologists say. Armenia like every small nation are dependent on larger nations, and they due to their geographic position the choice has been between Russia and Turkey. And Russia has always been the lesser evil. The Sovietization of Armenia was bad, but compared to Turkey's genocide it followed, it was practically humanitarian. But the west has consistently been on the Turkish side.

In the post-soviet era, there was zero chance of Armenia joining NATO and the western side, hell will freeze over before Turkey allow Armenia in NATO, everyone knows that. Legit I think a small part of Turkey's opposition to Sweden in Nato is that our parliament once voted to recognize the Armenia genocide (the other larger part is that we accepted kurdish refugess from Turkey's attempt to genocide the kurds, but that's another story).

Consequently Armenia naturally turned again to Russia, and became a CSTO member. Lets not pretend Armenia had much of a choice between NATO and CSTO. The greater evil for them has always been Turkey, and that is the ally of the west. Not that Russia is a good guy, they haven't helped Armenia at all. But neither has the west, it has no moral high ground to stand on.

#my posts #western hypocrisy #armenia #azerbaijan #russia

[stackslip]

exordia is great two thirds in. top five characters so far, in no particular order

ugandan-filipina lesbian physicist with a severe catholic guilt complex and equally a strong catholic urge to reach for the divine and protect it to the cost of her body and sanity and every aspect of herself

chinese mathematician who calls herself a liar while being quite literally pathologically obsessed with The Mathematical Truth Of The Universe who guides self loathing lesbian to revelation

kurdish failmom survivor of genocide who sometimes has alcohol-fueled blackouts and resents her seven year old daughter for saving her and others' lives through horrific war crimes, is also in a fucked up threesome with said war crimes daughter (now an adult) and their shared alien snake wife who speaks to them both telepathically

the other alien snake guy around who knows his species is damned to hell from birth and wishes to free it from damnation but is also very ok with going to hell himself because he fucking loves committing atrocities and yells I LOVE GENOCIDE in the middle of the book

the eldritch thing that has manifested in kurdistan that turns everyone into fractals and is older than the universe itself and desperately awaits someone to unlock it and give it a soul

#exordia #eli talks